The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.